Fledgling voice artist seeking counsel.

[kozikowski]

You spelt it wrong.

I did look it up multiple times, but interpreted the result wrong.

I paint with verbs but don't always get the colours right.

Koz

[MichloIW]

Understood.

And whilst ducking behind that couch you still ducked my question. PM if necessary.

Cheers.

[Paul L]

Who the heck rhymes "four" with "Arkansas?" Nobody who is from there. It's a pity the British can't speak English.

[Paul L]

Catching up in this long conversation. Don't know if has been mentioned yet, but you should use this instead of silencing noises in the pauses:

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 12#p208312

Use edit, preferences, keyboard to assign a key to the pasting effect so that it is as easy as ctrl-L, and then, do not use ctrl-L.

It is undesirable to have any intervals of absolute silence. Rather, it is desirable to have some room tone and have it consistent. Drops from room tone to silence might be noticeable and seem unnatural.

[kozikowski]

This is well-trod earth. The last few passes had background noises in the -60 range (as required), and gentle, graceful noise reduction that produced little or no damage to the voice.

We're hashing out the last decimal point of filters and effects needed to squeeze out the best possible quality with the minimum tools and the least damage.

Koz

[kozikowski]

It's a pity the British can't speak English.

Some of them have trouble with American, yes.
Koz

[kozikowski]

i remember. Mouth clicks. How's that coming along?
Have you submitted anything final to ACX testing?

Koz

[Paul L]

Has it also been pointed out that it is easy to measure RMS of a selection by using Analyze, Contrast. Or I think a few lines of magic words in the Nyquist prompt could do it too.

The Contrast dialog can be funky though, if multiple projects have been opened and closed. It may stop opening until you restart Audacity.

I have produced eight titles through ACX and QA rejected files only for (1) incorrect spacing at start and end of chapter or (2) exporting stereo instead of mono. Easily remedied.

How many other ACX producers are active here? I only know Ian and one other, but myself, I have been inactive lately.

[MichloIW]

Odd,

I didn't get the usual e-mail update that there were changes to the thread.

Paul, thank you for the suggestion, I shall have a look (though Koz doesn't seem keen). I too had realized already that I didn't like absolute silence so I had taken to copying pieces of quiet ambient noise but, as you pointed out, they aren't the same size.

Also, good to make your acquaintance on FB tonight and to meet a fellow voice artist.

Koz, not yet. Tomorrow the cleaner for my humidifier arrives and I know I'm being picky but I'd like to try recording whilst that is on to see if I can remove mouth clicks even further. I did speak to ACX and they've told how and where to put a sample for them.

As for the bait, I shall not rise to it as I am British.

Cheers.

[steve]

Has it also been pointed out that it is easy to measure RMS of a selection by using Analyze, Contrast.

Be careful if the track has multiple audio clips because the Contrast tool may then give an incorrect reading. The bug has been fixed in 2.0.6 alpha (http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720) and the fixed version will be available in the next Audacity release.